[ARGUS] argus-2.0.6.fixes.1/FreeBSD-4.10 <=> argus-clients-2.0.6.fixes.1/FC2

[Carter Bullard]

Gentle people,
   I'm tracking this thread, but not sure if there is anything for me
to do yet.  I don't have access to any machine that generates this
type of behavior so, .......   As soon as we have a position on a fix,
I'll put it in.

Carter


> From: Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:15:51 -0700
> To: <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ARGUS] argus-2.0.6.fixes.1/FreeBSD-4.10 <=>
> argus-clients-2.0.6.fixes.1/FC2
> 
> Thanks, I'll try that and see what happens :-) (since this is the
> only Fedora machine I know of, our Beowolf folks tossed it and went with
> SUSE).
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:49:15PM -0700, Mike Iglesias wrote:
>>> Is the Linix machine an AMD opteron running in 64 bit mode by chance?
>>> In that case this is a feature not a bug :-) argus is known to not be 64 bit
>>> clean at present that is to be addresses in 2.0.7. I got an account on a
>>> Fedora core 2 here, but it is an Opteron and it indeed doesn't run at all
>>> trying to read from FreeBSD and I suspect thats why.
>>> If that is the case you might try compiling on a 32 bit Fedora core 2
>>> machine and move the binaries. It is believed that they will run in
>>> "compatability mode" by the owner of the machine.
>> 
>> You can compile using "-m32" and then you won't have to find a 32 bit FC2
>> system and move the binaries.  I have not tried what you are trying, but
>> it will read argus output files written on a 32 bit Intel system running
>> Linux.
>> 
>> I've found other software that's not 64 bit clean, and have started
>> installing
>> the 32 bit FC or RH Enterprise on the Opteron systems.  It saves a lot of
>> fiddling around trying to determine why something doesn't work right.
>> I remember going thru all this when the Digital Alpha systems came out,
>> and having to fix a lot of software that was not 64 bit clean (mostly
>> software that assumed an int and a pointer were the same size).
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Iglesias                          Email:
>> iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu
>> University of California, Irvine       phone:       949-824-6926
>> Network & Academic Computing Services  FAX:         949-824-2069
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